93 the dusk of gods era 1

Waking up the next morning, Alex could see Sunny standing near his bed.

"Master, the elves have returned." With a snap of his finger, the sixty cubes stand neatly arranged on the coffee table not far.

"Let see then." rising from the bed, he plops on the couch in front of the table, taking out a large sheet of parchment. One by one, the cubes melt in the parchment, making lines after line appears on it. A complete map of floors flashes one after others as he sees pop up appear in the corner of his vision. when the last cube melt in, the sheet folds on itself and close.

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{[Hidden objective: Side. "Plus ultra!"

The dungeon, while being a dangerous place, is also a land of promise, grab every opportunity.

Condition: Map every floor you encounter.

Taking the map with him the two of them appears in the territory. Looking around for a good place, he chose the plains between the castle and the territory. Using a large number of rocks taken from the Houses of the former Death Eaters, he creates two stories round empty building. Entering the basement, he excavates the ground in a similar fashion of the hole in Orario, only 5 meters deep, a slope gently raising the length of the hole walls. Jumping down, he walks until the middle of the hundred-meter wide hole.

'CS, do you know in what form they would manifest?'

-Yes, in a sphere form, better start with the higher one and climb down after that.-

'claim the cores then.'

Without a sound, a palm-size deep red core appears in his hand. Tilting it slightly, the orb falls from the hand to the ground, sinking in. A slight rumble could be felt like the earth open, making another slope go down in the darkness. As the rumble stop, he let the second core roll the slope, creating another rumble a few seconds later.

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For the next fifteen minutes, Sunny and I stay in the basement f the building as I had floors after floors to the emerging dungeon. As the last core settle, a new pop up appears.

{[You have successfully created your Dungeon, actual numbers of floors:60. A safe floor will be had every seven floors, would you like to activate the Dungeon? Y/N?

"Sunny, I will need the cores that the expedition team has to bring them, could you go and bring them here, please?"

"Yes, master!"

The elf vanishes, only to reappear a few seconds later, followed with few others, with crate after crate brimming of cores floating behind them.

"Just empty them in the slope, please."

As the first crate was emptied on it, he receives a message.

Before accepting the change he put his hand on the floors, feeling the entire of the Dungeon, he craves runes after runes on the walls, sealing completely those floors from each other with few other features. The Dungeon secured, he accepts, the crystals melt in the ground, and change starts to appears. Like the one from Orario, lighting gems start to appear on the walls that were now revealed. Taking this as their clue, elves after elves pour the crate content in the slope, feeding a constant amount of energy for the activation of the Dungeon. A few moments later, a yet new message appears.

AS the crystals fed became larger, the messages start to appears faster.

After that, he would receive a similar message each time the six previous floors have been reached. At the tenth of those messages, another part was added.

'I can expand my dungeon indefinitely?'

-Perhaps not a good idea, you don't know how this one will react. If the difficulty his exponential you will perhaps be forever unable to clear it, better create other small DUngeon for the others to train in.-

'Good idea, don't change the fact that we will need to clear it to retrieve the news cores.'

-Mmm.-

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Done, for now, Alex returns to the house in Orario, and go prepare breakfast for the two others present here. During this he couldn't help but thinks of Lily, the little girl has been at first looking above her shoulder every five seconds, until she hears that the Soma Familia, like a great number of shady others ones, have been wiped out without a trace.

After that, her personality completely changes, while she receives Hestia blessing, she didn't return to the dungeon even once and was happily preparing the command Hestia was treating at the front.

The shop was a great hit with the peoples of Orario, even without adventurers coming to buy gears of the second floor, it was greatly appreciated by the common peoples. As for the other side, the part of the adventurer's city had rapidly turned into hell. It has been three weeks since he first strikes against the dark side of the city and since them, it rapidly turns to hell. The gods have restricted their adventurers to exit the ground of their respective Familia, all business has come to a halt and all were either guarding against the series of murders or war games from fellow Familia.

Not a single Familia has been spared from this. All the trading Familia has closed shop as every expedition has been canceled. The large Familia like Hephaistos has been hit the harder, without raw materials to exercise, it was by tenth that she receive and had to retrieve her Flana from her members, who exit the city for other places.

The expedition type like Loki and Freya have been relatively safe for the first week. When the restriction hadn't been raised from the dungeon, and due to other Familia rapidly growing in rank they had a need to go into bloody wars games to secure resources to not lost their members and maintain the Familia afloat.

Now in the third week, Orario was in shambles. It didn't help that Alex hadn't stopped to strike, erasing Familia after Familia that have been weakening from other war games. Ishtar was one of the first to fall. Without income, Adventures have stopped to go into the red district, and was it not from his army of house-elves, they would have relived themselves from the ordinary citizens.

All those that attempt **** never reappear afterward. Unable to maintain her income and after sending adventurers to search for Haruhime, Alex has used this opportunity to slowly eat away her power base.

He had taken care of the few levels 1 she first sends as well as the level 2, from the above, he sends the swarm of the elves that had to roam the dungeon, each of them at least equal to a level 3 adventurer.

When the news that she lost half of her adventurers was known, she was immediately crushed by past Familia from who she had stolen members. She had rapidly rejoined the other soul orb and now wait for Alex to use them.

The population of adventurer has been divided by three in those past weeks, and it was only due to Alex taking care of the nation Familia that the city was still standing. Without active supporter Familia, the available weapons were to an all-time low. All those types of Familia have crumbled before they could even understand that without them the system would die.

It was since the second week that Hephaistos had come live with them when Hestia had lean that her friend has lost all but her captain, she immediately brings her.

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In his seat under the guild Ouranos couldn't help but sight, the very city has crumbled in not even three weeks, the time he discovers what was happening to the surface while he was busy keeping a watch on the dungeon, it has been too late to react.

The reason he didn't see it came was only due to a group of adventurers that we're able to sneak past the guards and the sealed doors leading to the Dungeon. While he was furious that someone was able to act under his gaze unseen, he was thankful to them as they would clean the high, middle, and part of the low floors of any monsters. Until now, the security of the city was safe as monsters were keeps at bay but it won't last, he was able to perceive movement in the deep floors, monsters were climbing up, like thousand years ago, and would be soon overflowing in the city, killing anyone in sight.

As he was thinking, the doors of his chambers bang open, as Fels appears.

"Ouranos-sama! Freya Familia had enacted a war game on the Loki Familia!"

He groans at the news, for the last week, Familia has been striking other with wars games without the authorization of the guild, the escalation was such that now, no one bothers to consult the guild, it had completely lost control of the city and could only run damage control at this state.

"What are the stake."

"The winning Familia will absorb the other completely."

Without a word, and for a long time, Ouranos quit his throne and run to the outside world.

'This is bad! I can't let that happen, Freya would never do that without a good reason.'

The time he arrives at the colosseum of the Ganesha Familia, it was too late, the top exclusive of the Loki Familia was laying down in front of a single member of Freya. Before he could ask, he heard snippets of conversation.

She had hidden that her captain has breakthrough level 7 and thus decimated level 6 of Loki. Even if the game was only the three against Ottar, the war game was cleared as Loki Familia Captain have fallen from Freya one.

Ouranos was so much in deep thought that he never hear the one creeping behind him. Fels was unable to react when his god vanish from behind him without a sound. Ten seconds later, he feels his Flana vanish, his god dead.